BERLIN(MktNews) - Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed doubts Monday that a peaceful solution of the Iraq crisis is still possible, while stressing that hope still remains. "Doubts (about a peaceful solution) currently prevail, but I cannot nor do I want to give up hope", Schroeder said.
"We do not want to give up on any attempt to finally getting a program of concrete disarmament steps (of Iraq) within a certain time-frame, which (Chief UN weapons inspector) Mr.Blix will put forward," as part of an international solution on the Iraq crisis, Schroeder added. //www.marketnews.com